The Responsive Music Educator Library

"Ashley's default of being highly organized and deeply tuned in with her students makes learning with her a thought-provoking and joyous experience!

After years of searching and reflection, I finally feel as though I have tangible steps in meeting my individual students needs and providing a sense of belonging in our music room for all, thanks to learning with Ashley!"

"Your workshop helped me reflect on how I could make my musical content even more diverse by considering different processes for music-making, not just different musical products.

You modelled strategies for including diverse music through improvisation and creation, and this inspired me to consider how I could normalize Black traditions in my classroom through music choices, ways of creating, and ways of presenting our work."

"My biggest question was "How to utilize these practices in my own teaching in ways that I could easily pass onto the rest of my staff across our levels, disciplines, and sites."

Many things are more universally applicable than they seem when I am able to start from real world applications and the standard instead of working to adapt the standard to the curriculum I'm currently saddled with."